Line #56 Main/OrganicBra


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7	[[caption-width-right:350:No bra, no problem.]]
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9	Sometimes, when you need to create a human-looking alien, a female member of a race of UnscaledMerfolk, or a DraconicHumanoid, bras or simple breast coverings may look awkward, as she isn't supposed to wear any clothes at all. Well, what should a writer do? The answer is, in this case, covering the mammaries with a natural fleshy appendage, wide enough to hide cleavage and nipples from a view from above. In a few cases, it can also cover a good part of the belly and the waist, forming a shell-like composition. Usually it will be thick enough to hide the nipples underneath, which consequently leads to NippleAndDimed. Bonus points if the creature either looks like an adolescent or appears in children media.
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11	This trope may be used to avoid FanDisservice moments.
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13	Subtrope of ClothingAppendage. Sister trope of SeaShellBra and BarbieDollAnatomy. Compare it to NonMammalMammaries and ExposedExtraterrestrials. Can sometimes overlap with NonhumansLackAttributes. Not to be confused with FurBikini, though it can overlap in case the character's nonhuman biology is based on a fur/hair-covered mammal (e.g. a {{Catgirl}}).
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20	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
21	* ''Anime/BlueSubmarineNo6'': Mutio and her sisters have fleshy bits growing out of their shoulders that hang down over their chests and cover their breasts most of the time. Though there are a couple of scenes where Mutio's movements cause her breasts (and nipples) to be visible anyway.
22	* Lisanna Strauss, in ''Manga/FairyTail'', has magic that lets her take on the form of animals. During the Tartaros arc she uses it to create a bra and underwear when she suffers from a lack of clothing, although technically she just transformed those parts of her body into a cat. She's still 100% percent nude, just part cat.
23	* Kino the matango (mushroom girl) in ''Manga/MonsterMusume'' has "frills" covering her private parts that are actually a part of her body.
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27	* ''ComicBook/Zatanna2010'': The fire demons take the form of nearly naked women that are WreathedInFlames, they curiously seem to have some kind of organic fire underwear on their bodies.
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30	[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
31	* [[BigBad Ursula]], along with her sister [[TheUnfavorite Morgana]], from ''Franchise/TheLittleMermaid'' franchise: her waist, buttocks and breasts are covered by a patch of black skin that forms a sweet-heart neckline. Furthermore their backs lack the black covering, making their skin look like part of a slinky evening dress.
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35	* In both the original ''Film/{{Clash of the Titans\|1981}}'' and [[Film/ClashOfTheTitans2010 the 2010 remake]], Medusa has black plates covering her nipples.
36	* In ''Film/TheLittleMermaid2018'', Elizabeth has scales that cover her breasts in her mermaid form.
37	* The live-action ''Film/TheLittleMermaid2023'' ditches the {{Seashell Bra}}s from the animated film in favor of scales covering the chests (and in a few cases the entire torso) of Ariel and her sisters.
38	* Marishka, Alena, and Verona (a.k.a Dracula's brides) from ''Film/VanHelsing'' have their chests covered with ridged leathery white skin whenever they turn into vampires. Justified, as their human forms possess {{Stripperific}} clothes.
39	* In the ''Franchise/XMenFilmSeries'', shapeshifter Mystique is nude when not shapeshifted. She has scaly parts over her naughty bits.
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42	[[folder:Literature]]
43	* In ''Literature/SkinOfTheSea'', mermaids have scales covering most of their bodies. When they leave the water and turn into humans, [[MagicPants the scales turn into clothes]].
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46	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
47	* The mermaids in ''Series/Charmed1998'' have a variation where their breasts are covered by strategically-placed scales.
48	* Mermaids in ''Series/H2OJustAddWater'' and ''Series/MakoMermaidsAnH2OAdventure'' have scales in exactly the same pattern as a bra, complete with straps, with a bare midriff between that and the scales of their tails. Mermen are bare-chested.
49	* Venus de Milo from ''Series/NinjaTurtlesTheNextMutation'' is a [[NonMammalMammaries mutant turtle with breasts]] whose mammaries are covered up by her plastron.
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53	* ''VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}}'' has CatGirl Felicia with a strip of fur that both censors her nipples and acts as a FurBikini.
54	* In the ''VideoGame/{{Disgaea}}'' series, the Nekomata class has patches of fur on their chest, giving them the appearance of wearing a FurBikini.
55	* Despite being a human-like creature, the fury Alecto from ''VideoGame/GodOfWarAscension'' has her breasts covered by a naturally produced, black, tar-like substance. Her cleavage is quite visible, though.
56	* Nami, the Tidecaller in ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' has this as well as NavelDeepNeckline formed with ''her scales''. WordOfGod states that she actually did this when she found out about the indecency of this in Runeterra, the ingame world, after a certain NoodleIncident and used her magic to cover herself.
57	* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime [[VideoGameRemake 3D]]'', Princess Ruto has fins on her chest that have the appearance of a dress top to cover her NonMammalMammaries. This carries over into ''VideoGame/HyruleWarriors''. In the original release of ''Ocarina'', she tends more toward BarbieDollAnatomy.
58	* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'': [[spoiler:Midna's true form]] has exposed breasts, although [[NonHumansLackAttributes a lack of features]] and dark patches of skin make it appear she has an undergarment of some sort beneath her shawl. The effect worked so well most fans didn't even realize she was technically topless until she got a higher-resolution render for ''VideoGame/HyruleWarriors''.
59	* Bowser/Bowletta from ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiSuperstarSaga'' possesses two large plates on her chest.
60	* [[OurMermaidsAreDifferent Suzuka Gozen]] from ''VideoGame/{{Onmyoji\|2016}}'', already MsFanservice in her normal skins, has this in her exclusive Golden Voyage alternate skin, where she's completely naked above the waist, with only a thin pattern of golden scales running up her torso to cover her nipples.
61	* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'':
62	** Nidoqueen sports two massive chest plates.
63	** Jynx has what looks like an opera singer dress on, with a red bra-like structure on its chest.
64	** Swanna from Gen V has tufts of feathers on its chest designed to evoke the chest of a ballerina costume.
65	* Alexia Ashford's Tyrant Form in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilCodeVeronica'' has vine-like growths that cover her nipples and groin.
66	* The Queen of Blades from ''VideoGame/{{Starcraft}}'' franchise has purple colored skin that covers her breasts. Furthermore, everything but the breasts is covered with bone-like bumps.
67	* In ''VideoGame/StarTrekOnline'', Fek'Ihri Ravagers have a blobby patch of flesh over the breasts. Very much FanDisservice.
68	* The female naga from ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' have their [[NonMammalMammaries breasts]] covered by scales (their models in ''VideoGame/WarcraftIII'' simply have BarbieDollAnatomy, but that's probably due to the lower graphic resolution). Some of them wear armor over their chest, though.
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72	* In ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfTheGummiBears'', Aquarianne the mermaid's fish scales cover her upper body all the way up to her chest, as if she was wearing a long dress.
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